Thank goodness... I was just getting started researching all the different places I could move my on-line email and my club bulletin boards and chat rooms. It seems as though the Evil Empire has learned (maybe learned) that just because it wants something, doesn't mean it should have it.

First off, calling Microsoft the evil empire by the poster Kma is a pathetic & uneducated observation. Microsoft would be smart to spend their money elsewhere. I hope they use those billions to purchase exciting emerging technologies that they can bring to the masses (something they do very well).

The Microsoft-Yahoo deal was a bad match from the beginning. Microsoft is a follower in every market they are in, and Yahoo an Internet leader.

I have been a paying Yahoo customer for nine years; had Microsoft purchased Yahoo, my trust in Yahoo would have plummeted, and I would probably have moved my services elsewhere, including giving up the e-mail address I've had the longest (9 yrs) since 1985 when I had my first Internet e-mail address (unrvax!bally!pete).